page_title: Wizard Island
section_title: Access
hierarchical_section_title: Wizard Island / Access
caption_attribution_description: English: View inside the volcanic crater of Wizard Island on Crater Lake, Oregon, US.
context_page_description: Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet above sea level, about 755 feet above the average surface of the lake.
  The cone is capped by a volcanic crater about 500 feet wide and 100 feet deep. The crater was named the "Witches Cauldron" by William Gladstone Steel in 1885, who also gave Wizard Island its name at the same time.
  The land area of the island is 315.85 acres.
context_section_description: Current public access to Wizard Island is available only during the summer months when boat tours on Crater Lake are in operation.  The tours depart from Cleetwood Cove at the north end of the lake, and circle the lake in the counterclockwise direction, stopping at a dock at Governors Bay on the south side of Wizard Island.  
  Passengers on boat trips early in the day may choose to disembark on the island, but must be prepared to spend the entire day on the island if subsequent boats are too full to take on additional passengers.  Those on late afternoon boat trips are not permitted to disembark.  A final boat is dispatched at the end of each day to pick up any stragglers since overnight camping is not permitted on the island.  
  Two hiking trails are available on Wizard Island, one of which switchbacks up the flanks of the cone and circles the crater on top while the other trail meanders from the dock towards the western end of the island.
caption: Looking up out of the crater of Wizard Island from the bottom
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